Preachin' the Blues aka Son House On Film, 1977 (part 1 of 2)

(1977) Son House: Preachin’ the Blues

“In May 1975, an article about the documentary called ‘Son House on film’ appeared in an issue of a blues quarterly called ‘Whiskey, Women and…’. The article said that interviews had been done with “John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry, Buddy Guy, Brownie McGhee, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, and Dick Waterman.” More interviews were planned “with such blues notables as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Johnny Shines,” and furthermore “Arrangements are also being made for B.B. King to do the film’s narration track.” a photograph showed a young man sitting with Son and Evie on the steps of 61 Grieg Street with the caption saying it was the “Director Louis Villalon.” Mix had brought Villalon in the intervening year. Mix’s documentary was suspended after the Toronto festival for lack of money. Mix gave some of his footage to another young Rochester resident named Mark Brady. Brady transferred some of the 16mm footage to the cheaper video format and added some sequences on Grieg Street and Genesee Street. He subsequently made a 30-minute black and white video documentary about House that aired on the local public television affiliate in 1978, and then – rather like its subject – disappeared from view from almost twenty years.”
- Daniel Beaumont, Preachin’ The Blues: The Life & Times of Son House, 2011

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